Sentences with phrase «battle over the plan»

Diversified healthcare company Abbott Laboratories on Friday agreed to buy Alere for about $ 4.48 billion, ending a prolonged legal battle over its plan to buy the diagnostic - testing company.

The battle over the plans of the Chicago Children's Museum to move to Grant Park flared up at a Chicago Park District meeting Wednesday, with opponents booing park commissioners who supported the project and cheering those who didn't.

With a telephone call to a wealthy developer last week, de Blasio waded into the battle over a planned $ 250 million arts center on a pier in the Hudson River, known as Pier 55 and often called Diller Island, for its major sponsor, the entertainment mogul Barry Diller.

Scott Stringer, a fierce critic of Mayor Bloomberg on issues like the NYPD's stop - and - frisk tactics, joined the administration's side in the battle over plans to expand taxi service.

«Washington needs to be focused on helping hardworking families like mine — not fighting ideological battles over Planned Parenthood.»

She takes up this ubiquitous feature of every modern home as a historical nexus, both of the post-World War II ideological battles over planning and speculation, and of several gender - coded modes of production.

Though Smallman loves the finished product, it would not have been possible without a tough three - year battle over planning regulations.

This order may temporarily halt the long running legal battle over the plan, thought it surely won't end it.

Not exact matches

President Donald Trump was sued twice on Monday over his plan to ban transgender soldiers from the U.S. military, setting the stage for more bruising court battles about a directive from the White House.

Alberta and B.C. have been locked in a battle over the future of Kinder Morgan's $ 7.4 - billion plan to triple the capacity of the Trans Mountain pipeline, which runs from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C.

«I will be scouring Reddit on my flight over and have a battle plan by the time I get there,» Johnson told Business Insider.

The scandal forced the chain's founder and chairman, Richard Schulze, to resign and he has since been locked in a battle with directors over his plans to buy the firm and take it private.

«As well, the failed attempt at a budget compromise by Congress and the President — the so - called Super Committee «Grand Bargain — was a $ 4 trillion battle plan over 10 years» worth $ 400 billion a year.

Battles over priorities in a huge governmentwide spending bill are essentially settled, leaving a scaled - back plan for President Donald Trump's border wall and a huge rail project that pits Trump against Capitol Hill's most powerful Democrat as the top issues to be solved.

Obama has been battling some in Congress over his plans to use more private space companies, like Space X, for getting people to orbit with NASA concentrating on missions to send astronauts to new places, such as nearby asteroids.

The long - planned pipeline has become a symbol both of Canada's efforts to get land - locked bitumen to international markets and a flashpoint in the battle over climate change.

ADP, which has been battling Ackman over his «transformation plan» to shake up the board and «double» its share price, detailed its behind - the - scenes negotiations with Ackman in a regulatory filing on Tuesday.

Facebook has battled European regulators over a plan to use WhatsApp user data, including phone numbers, to develop products and target ads.

Cohn has been fiercely battling the president and an influential contingent of anti-free trade advisers in the White House over Trump's plan to impose sweeping tariffs on steel and aluminum import, warning that it could spark a major trade war.

Planning for both of these meetings, within the UN bureaucracy and among the thousands of NGO activists who participate in UN-sponsored programs, was dominated by strident doomsayers and hard - core population controllers of the Garrett Hardin / Paul Ehrlich («the battle to feed all humanity is over») school.

The Catholic position had become so clear, indeed, that there had been calls from anti-Catholic quarters for Ms. Kelly to resign, on the basis of rumours that she had been trying to weaken or delay the regulations: as Toby Helm, the Telegraph's chief political correspondent had reported the previous October, under the headline «Kelly «must resign over delay to gay rights law»», «A fierce Cabinet battle has broken out over gay rights after Ruth Kelly, the Communities Secretary, delayed plans that would penalise organisations — such as hotels — for denying their services tohomosexuals.

The Pirates are going to miss Marte in the lineup, given he hit.292 /.349 /.448 for a 119 OPS + over the last four years and already had an uphill battle planned against the Cubs and Cardinals even with Marte around for the entire year.

District 181 officials are reluctant to discuss the issue, but a Tribune analysis of district documents shows the overruns can be attributed, in part, to poor planning, personality clashes and a rush to complete the project even while battles raged over land ownership and storm - water and zoning issues.

With a little knowledge of airline rules & good planning, family travel can be really fun, even if it still involves the occasional in - flight tantrum or battle with TSA over your toddler's juice box.

More than 150 supporters and opponents of the Park District's plan to develop the historic farm turned out to witness the latest battle between the district and the village over the recreation center.

Perhaps the euphoria over Sears «new battle plan has abated, and we Illinois citizens and taxpayers should take a second look and consider the fallout.

Though the Village Board's decision will allow the park district to move ahead with its nature sanctuary plans, some residents from the Lake Arlington neighborhood have suggested that the battle is far from over.

With a little knowledge of airline rules and some good planning, family travel can be really fun, even if it still involves the occasional in - flight tantrum or battle with TSA agents over your toddler's juice box.

France marks Labor Day as President Emmanuel Macron finds himself in a protracted battle with unions and students over his reform plans.

After losing a court battle late last year over a proposed rail trail, the state Adirondack Park Agency approved a plan that, if finalized, would clear the legal hurdles necessary to build a trail between Tupper Lake and Lake Placid.

The governor's potential support comes during a battle between Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio over funding subway improvements and just as the mayor unveiled his own plan to create a new funding source for the MTA: a millionaires tax to fund MTA operations and half - fare MetroCards for low - income city residents.

Andrew Lilico, who should be on the Monetary Policy Committee, and Nadine Dorries, who should be in a senior Government position, battled it out over recently mooted plans to shut down social media during civil unrest.

The Upstate Republicans are preparing to battle over a tax reform plan that could hurt New Yorkers financially, a budget that cuts programs that are popular Upstate such as Meals on Wheels and the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, and an immigration crackdown at a time when Upstate cities are embracing refugees and new immigrants.

Sherrill compared the impending fight over CUNY and Medicaid funding to the battle between de Blasio and Cuomo over how to fund the MTA's capital plan.

Kiryas Joel, a growing Hasidic community in Orange County, has been battling with neighboring municipalities and legislators over its plan to annex over 500 acres of land, which Cuomo in the past has described as unconstitutional.

Battle plans are being made, and the Tories could well be content to sit back and invite Miliband to show his hand — big questions still hang over the Labour leader's line of attack.

A years - long battle over charges of racial discrimination at Brooklyn's Broadway Triangle was settled after the city agreed to overhaul its plan to develop the area.

Attorney Peter Henner is taking on the Cuomo administration's plans to spend $ 500 million over the next three years to upgrade Internet broadband capacity in under - served areas across New York — not battling the idea itself, but rather seeking to carve out a role as a watchdog in the complicated, years - long process.

The Troy City Council approved a $ 67.94 million budget for 2016 by an 8 - 1 vote, but the struggles over the spending plan may have one more battle.

He has fought a losing battle with the chancellor over defence cuts - with the comprehensive spending review overshadowing all other government plans.

The RNC will spend nearly $ 1 million on campaign activities over the next month to battle President Obama's health care plan.

And she weighed in on her ongoing battle with Staten Island Assembly members Nicole Malliotakis and Ronald Castorina over the city's plan to dump the personal files of applicants to the IDNYC program by year's end, so as to keep the Trump administration from requisitioning them.

Ratcheting up the pressure in a bitter battle between New York City and the state over health care costs, the city's public hospital system is planning on suing New York State officials over a payment of some $ 380 million in federal funding it says the state is unlawfully withholding.

The mayor and Common Council are locked in battle over a 2017 spending plan.

They are the «three men in a room» who battle each other every year over the spending plan - and always manage to deliver it weeks or months after its April 1 due date.

The mayor also appeared to lose a battle with e-hail company Uber, which attacked de Blasio over plans to limit the growth of for - hire vehicles.

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — When other elected officials around the city were giving their state of the district speeches back in the summer, City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez decided to postpone his — citing a flurry of staff changes, zoning battles over the controversial Sherman Plaza project and plans to increase bike lanes in the area.

This has been borne out in their various proxy battles over the future of charter schools, the funding of the Metropolitan Transportation authority's capital plan, the growth of e-hail giant Uber, and how long the mayor should have authority over the city's public schools.

The plans were discussed Wednesday as board members battled over what's more important, another City Honors or more attention to struggling elementary schools.

After 43 years of bitter battles over the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, Community Board 3's land use committee approved a set of planning guidelines tonight for the 7 - acre parcel next to the Williamsburg Bridge.